Israel is but ONE of the
prophetic foci of the Bible. CHRIST is far more significant.

Just as Israel is
the VEHICLE for prophecy,

leading on to Christ, the
Messiah whom that nation rejected, though members of it became the apostles of
the Christian Church, writing not only its Old but is New Testament, and Christ
was Himself born into this nation as predicted, where predicted, when predicted,
how predicted, with the personal results predicted, the national results
predicted and the international results predicted:

so Christ is the
ONE CONVEYED!

Some seem to imagine that
prophecy in the Old Testament sense, ceased. When ? it is urged that it did so with the advent of the Saviour who
indeed,
as such, was and had to be God in the flesh (Isaiah 43:10-11, 53, Psalm 2, 45).

As to the Saviour, He was in fact, for the same reason, the Creator in the flesh (Isaiah 44:24,
45:18, Colossians 1:15ff., John 1:1-3, Micah 5:1-3). Hence His incarnation is
not some serial event: it is epochal, final and conclusive.

Nothing is to follow
it but judgment (Acts 4:11-12, Ephesians 1:10), although of course in speaking
of 'incarnation' which occurred in Jesus Christ, one equally portrays in this setting,

all that followed in
Himself,

that is the miraculous verification of His role,

in healing and word
and power,

the crucifixion and rejection by Jewish authorities as foretold,

the
resurrection of the body,

the testimony of the 40 days,

the prophecies of His
lips, their fulfilment, the construction of His church,

its significant recent
falling away (II Peter 2, II Thess. 2),

in preparation for the devil's
messiah, the man of sin, soon to sit astride the world for a short season before
the trials are concluded, that delusive copy-cat nonsense, that fallen
fiasco

who mocks the real Messiah who
came as and when announced, some two millenia ago.

All this indeed is singular,
unique, deity as man. The Saviour, Jesus Christ, being God,
however, is not limited by this or that action of His own people, or those who
use His name. The destination of His prophecies and those concerning Him are as far as the millenium, the
resurrection and the eternity in heaven! (Luke 19:42ff., John 5:19ff., Daniel
7).

It is true that His redemption
as a man is wrought once, for it is given to man once to be born, and once to
die (Hebrews 9), and He is not given to suffer often, but ONCE (Hebrews 9),
having already paid for the sin of all who receive this gift, once and for all.
Yet to try to stifle the scope of God's word to end with the advent of Christ,
even His prophetic words, is mistaken. Prophecy is no more required to stop with
the manifest work of redemption, than is eternal life to stop with the
resurrection. It was the SPIRIT OF CHRIST, we read who GAVE the prophecies in
the first place (I Peter 1:10ff.), just as Christ in the flesh continued to give
more, and ALL will be fulfilled with the very honour of the Lord!

To be sure, it is no mistake to
remove all EXTRA-BIBLICAL babbling. The canon is closed (Revelation 22), no
addition to the THINGS being permitted, or subtraction to the WORDS. However, it
is not limited in its APPLICATION.

Thus if Christ forecasts
or any of those prophets whose words He enshrined as truth from God (Matthew
5:17-20), what is to be
before He returns, or after it, so be it .

Matthew 24 is full of such prediction,
while Daniel 7 with Zechariah and Psalm 2, 110, for example, also abound
cf. Acme, Alpha and Omega ... Ch. 6,
as the New Covenant reaches its latest group of converts near the return of
Christ and later, SMR pp. 803,
718ff.,
836, *8, News 47, Trust God...Ch. 5, With Heart and Soul...Ch. 5 .

It will be as it always has
been, when first by the Spirit of Christ (I Peter 1:10-12), and then by
His own lips on earth, He, the eternal word of the living God, declares His mind
to man, and then does it (Amos 4:13 cf. The Kingdom of Heaven...
Ch. 9, Isaiah 43:24ff.). Indeed, as the last
reference indicates, it is His good pleasure to make HIS WORD WORK in complete
divergence from the words of mere pretenders. There is only one God; look, and
find for yourself, there is nothing else like His word. He says it; He does it,
though it take 3000 years for a span of His bridge.

If prophets before Him, led by
the Holy Spirit (not something subsidiary), were moved to present truth, there
is no terminus which man can appoint, as if to put the word of God in irons, as
to when the predictions must cease to have effect. As to God, He Himself,

"Strong
is He who executes His word" (Joel 2:11, cf. Jeremiah 1:12, and Isaiah
14:27,

"for the Lord
of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it ? His had is stretched out,
and who will turn it back ? " ).

Obviously, as in Isaiah
24, Micah 7, Psalm 45, Isaiah 11, Joel 3, Psalm 110, Isaiah 51:6 and so forth,
the testimonies cover events to the very dissolution of the universe, and this, it is not
accomplished at the time of the incarnation, nor was it supposed to be, for many
and vast were the foci subsequent to that event, as one sees in Daniel 12, with
the general resurrection, for example. In this, II Peter adds to the entire
revelation, in Ch. 3, where specific details of the farewell to the universe are
provided; except that the term 'farewell' is here so metaphorical that it should
be given substitute, with the term 'marching orders', for it departs as a scene
spoiled by sin, to the rubbish, to the destruction, to the end of its working
life.

Israel (cf. SMR
Appendix A), for its part, is indeed a focus for divine
prediction till Christ's feet come in the midst of judgment to Mount Olives
(Zechariah 14, cf. Micah 7: Galloping EventsCh. 4, The Biblical Workman Ch. 1,*3,
Ch. 3, *3, Great
Execrations ... Ch. 4). It is like the
Gentile world, given its due focus, and God has not resigned in terror before
the philosophic intrusions of man, who either add their traditions like
Romanism, or subtract His declarations, like those who LIMIT the Holy One of
Israel (not recommended - Psalm 78:41), which is rather like two children, one
putting wadding in the father's mouth, the other dribbling his own contrived
words and telling his younger brother that dad said THIS TOO!

It is not good, so to act in
the presence of Almighty God, and truly, where His word is concerned, it is HIS,
not available for manipulation, delimitation or addition (Proverbs 30:6,
Deuteronomy 4, 12, Matthew 5:17-20, Mark 7:7ff.).

It is
what it is and it is His!

Hence it is of the utmost
significance that that lonely little nation, Israel, be not neglected in
biblical coverage. So deceived, so mistreated, so abused, so thieved from, so
murderously assailed: it is a nation so abandoned by so many for so long, and
one which moreover certainly GOD has disciplined, that it is an exhibit of the
wages of sin, which being amply shared by other nations, is by no means a ground
for presumption by Gentiles (Romans 11:18ff.).

If Israel, says God, fell for
its unbelief, let the a Gentile beware; for if Israel were torn from its trunk,
the 'olive tree' of the parable, how much more can the Gentile remain without
base or foundation, hope or life, never having been instituted in the beginning,
if unbelief fulfils its career in pagan hearts . How decisive this lack is,
without Christ, is made clear in the word of Paul to Gentiles in Ephesus
(Ephesians 2:12):

"at that time
you were without Christ,
being aliens
from the commonwealth of Israel
and strangers
from the covenants of promise,
having no hope
and without God in the
world,
but now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off
have been brought near by the blood of Christ).

(emphasis added).

This, it was to Gentile
CONVERTS, and compares where they were with their NEW position BECAUSE now they
have Christ.

No, this divine discipline of
Israel does this mean that the
Gentiles may rescind, as in the USA recently, laws precluding 'same-sex
marriages', that abomination of misrepresentation of the term 'marriage' to
preclude normal progression of the race on the designed plan, with impunity. No,
they need not expect to do such things as this in defiance of the most basic
laws of God about man as such (cf. I Timothy 1:9-11), and then not
expect that they too will receive judgment for their pains! Sodom was not made
an example as a picnic entertainment (Jude 7), for "they
were set forth as an example".

God is not mocked by
this one or that, this country or that. Examples are given in order to be
exemplary!

Nor does it mean that Moslems in Sudan
can behave in ways which begin to make even Hitler seem rather restrained, as
they savage and maul, killing even little children, making slaves of people
whose minds cannot, whose spirits do not share their active delusion which has
seized them, as they propose preposterous false prophecies while acting in all denial of common humanity (cf.
More Marvels... Ch. 4, Matthew 24:24, just as Christ
predicted: New Life, p. 3, June 26,
2003 which details some of the atrocities, even supplying names, from mission
quarters).

Small wonder Colin Powell
was there, in Sudan, to relay to them the conditions for their being removed from that list
of States which support terrorism! If this is not terror, what is! How could they fail to be on
such a list! Yet even
this is not all. These merely express the ferocity of unsated faith, the
subjective passion which does not rest in the Lord; and in many other ways does
modern man show his indifference to the word of God, His willingness to
contravene it, and to ignore what it decrees, has decreed and continues to cause
to happen, in defiance of logic and law alike (cf. TMR
Chs. 1, 8).

It is to be painfully
acknowledged, that though one loves both the USA and Israel, yes and indeed
Europe, among others, yet the seeds of spiritual corruption, when sown, gain
crops. The first, USA, actively seeks further dismantling of Israel, if not indeed a
division of their ONLY sacred capital; Israel for its part, continues to ignore
the requirements of faith in their own Messiah as a necessary condition of
peace; and Europe proceeds on its anti-Israeli attitude in this, that whether in
its pronouncements or in action in the UN, it does little to change from the dismantling
approach it has for so long shown. It is fast becoming quite simply, man versus
God. There is a certain disproportion...

Sow indeed the wind, and reap the whirlwind! What can be done ? Pull up
the weeds or expect the crop! that is what, in the end, may be done! Repentance is the profound need
for Jew and
Gentile alike, outside Christ, for in this, there is no difference! (Romans
3:22-23).

Meanwhile in the vast scope of
divine prophecy, which is as a light in a dark place until the day dawns as in II
Peter 1:19, and events arrive which were future in the days of Peter's words, and
are so to the present, as in
Revelation 21-22, that day when we know as we are known (I Corinthians 13):
UNTIL THEN, there is need
to be alert and aware concerning Israel. This, it is one of the great signals for the return
of His Majesty, the Lord Jesus Christ. Laugh at Israel if you must, at its
blowing the trumpet of warning of coming events, or if you prefer, its ringing the bell for the last lap in the
race to the finishing line of the returning Messiah, mock at its restoration of
Jerusalem to its own hands as required in Luke 21:24 before Christ should
return. Do all this if you will and must!

Scorn, if you are so inclined,
Israel's failure to hear its OWN TRUMPET*1, sounded by
its OWN RETURN to the control of Jerusalem, and its failure as a nation, to realise
for its OWN PART that this means its own time is near, for the vast outpouring
of the Holy Spirit, forecast by Zechariah 12, when in Israel MANY are to repent of the crucifixion, in large numbers,
and in an epochal manner. It
is however, not comic, but tragic; and will be, until it repents.

Laugh if you will, for this too is
predicted, a scornful dismissal (cf. Psalm 2), but it is GOD who, as He declares
and forecast, will laugh at the folly of neglect of His Son, the Saviour. His,
it is
not a harsh laugh, but it is one filled with an irony which mingled with the
tenderness of PROVIDING SALVATION, yet scorns those who are not prepared to
admit their (spiritual) poverty, so that they might be freely enriched (cf.
Revelation 3:17-18) from the work which HE has WROUGHT already, at prodigious
cost!

Here, if you will follow the
image, is the
physician who has given His own life to prepare the antidote to the judgment of
sin and its noxious diseases, who being despised in His death, is unimpressed
with those who insist on dying for ever from the presence of life eternal and
abundant, which is His (John 1:1-4), while despising his provisions. Indeed, He did not come
to call the RIGHTEOUS (self-righteous) but SINNERS (Matthew 9:12-13). Those too delicate to see
their sin, can keep it and its consequences (John 8:24). Those who, despite their
declivities and proclivities, are repentant and receive Him by faith for His
identity, the Lord, and His work, total atonement (II Corinthians 5:17ff., John
5:24), may
rejoice. It is DONE FOR THEM! Theirs by conferment, through adoption, by faith,
with Christ the object of that faith, is eternal life, and He will raise them up
on the last day (John 6).

What would you expect when the
Creator deals with your sin, some sort of partnership about your rebellion ?
Would you contribute your own sin as a kind of additive to His own measures,
wrought in infinite purity and pain!

It is not so (Ephesians
2:1-10), and could never be so, for the name by which man must be saved is that
of CHRIST (Acts 4:11-12), in which Robert Smith or John Brown are not seen to inhere!
These, they are recipients, not contributors (John 1:12).

It is the same for Israel, as
that epic little nation continues its place in this epochal hinge, where the
door swings open to the coming Age, when Christ returns. Jerusalem, to be
"trampled down" by the Gentiles UNTIL THEIR time
was up, is now back in Jewish hands (Luke 21:24); and Israel, to be blind UNTIL
the same Gentile era was up, is to be awakened. Blind ? It is also deaf to the
trumpet which it is itself blowing (cf. Isaiah 42:18ff.).

The long persecuted people, whose waste and desolate
places, whose land, a site of destruction has long paraded itself, is to become
notable again, not only in military address, a part which has ALREADY OCCURRED
BEFORE OUR CONTEMPORARY EYES (specifically in 1948, 1967, 1973), a martial
wonder predicted to precede the mass
conversion to come, when they would look on the One whom they pierced.

Israel ... Here is the 'nursing child' (as in Hosea
11:1ff), which had run far away. Here is the one whom the Lord cherished, which
EVEN THEN went far from Him. Here is the land which like an adulteress (Ezekiel
16, 23, Hosea), turned from the One to whom she was by covenant 'wed', and
brought upon herself the desolations predicted from Moses on (Deuteronomy 32,
Leviticus 26), being brought back as there, by the hand she despised. It
is near. Already the land and the capital Jerusalem, are as God foretold.

Already the astonishing assemblage of 'friendly' and
hostile nations, acts with almost one heart, to deprive this people even further
(Zechariah 12:3). But God has other plans, and in a little, this will, as always
in His word, be seen. Meanwhile, note it, those who seek further to pillory and
deprive Israel of its unconditional heritage, they are like those who fondle an
adder's tooth.

As for so long foretold (Joel 3, Micah 7, Zechariah), Israel long despised, long
assailed, long treated as dross, will become as gloss in the Lord; not all, to
be sure, only
the remnant: but what would you! It is to come, and the long horror of despising
its glory will cease, as will the Gentile habit of imagining that here at least
is someone to despise, despite their own so often acutely despicable behaviour,
not least towards the Jew!

All is in readiness, as for some
great operation by many skilled surgeons; but here, it is but One, on whom they
are to look, even on Him whom they pierced (Zechariah 12:10, Isaiah 45:22-23), in the midst of
those terminal wars leading to His personal return (Zechariah 12-14). This is
the operation which counts, when despite and in the midst of all the varied fulfilments
of His covenants, God brings man to Himself, in terms of that Messiah whom staggeringly, Israel both was used to foretell in profound detail,
and then hosted, hoisted and rejected (cf. Isaiah 49:7).

Meanwhile, tracing the
developments of the various antagonists, protagonists and agonists, if one might
coin a term, those creating agony by hatred and presumption, those who attack
Israel to grasp what God has given, it is here that we find no small thing. It is not that Israel
is entirely right, far from it, for it has yet to return to its God; but
it is not that it is in all things entirely wrong, and in this, in particular.
In what ? in this, that God Himself has brought her back as He
promised (cf. SMR Ch. 9), and having done so,
and brought Jerusalem back as He promised, despite all the fulminations of
Allahs or those who affect to follow that human invention which is NOT at all
the name of God, but of one created (cf. More Marvels... Ch. 4), being in fact simply the production of one of the
false prophets as foretold by Christ (Matthew 24:24): He comes to His own
pre-stated conclusion.

With God, a conclusion is not only an
inference or deduction; it is an end!
(cf. Isaiah 46:10).

God will act. He is on
record to this effect (cf. SMR pp.
502ff., Ch. 9), and in so acting, He will not leave any doubt, any more than
He has done in all the other actions which, having forecast, He has performed,
including the timing, as in that of Christ's own death date (cf. SMR pp.886ff.).
How beautifully does Micah 7 depict it, does Isaiah 66, does Joel 3 and Habakkuk
3, does Romans 11! (cf. Galloping EventsChs. 1, 8, More Marvels ... Ch. 5).

It is therefore apt and
fruitful to watch the Gentile Age ending and the Restoration of Israel
proceeding, until that happy culmination when, its eyes at last opened, it is
restored to the One who created it. If Israel is not currently, AS A NATION,
listening to its own trumpet blast in terms of the biblical predictions of the
returning Messiah, already slain, now to rule, then so be it.

Is this any excuse for the Gentile in whose ears the sound is blasting ?

THE PROCEDURE IN THIS VOLUME

In the following pages, NEWS
ITEMS from the last 7 years are taken in the order of their production, so that
this will allow a time-event series in progression. It includes of course
evaluation of events in biblical terms, and it is inspiring to watch the
unfolding of the flower which, despite the current calamities, will eventually
adorn the Gospel as multitudes of Jews, those from whom the Christian apostles
were drawn, return to their spiritual homeland TO BECOME ONE MORE COMPONENT OF
THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, not, thank the Lord, of those bogus pretensions which with
cruelty and contrivance, have injured and maimed, or slashed with hunting
knives, into the integrity of God's word, in radical liberalism or foolish
dreams (cf. Ezekiel 13:4-11) *2.

So is the spiritual domain, this land of love in the Lord, reached by
many, though in proportion in our race, they be few (Matthew 7:15ff.).

Meanwhile, the physical one
reminds all that God is PRACTICAL, as one who makes the Universe MUST BE, and
though a Spirit, and hence not limited as are material and programmed or
delimited things like man, He is abundantly able to deal with exquisite
sensibility with the heart of man. If GOD says THIS IS THEIR LAND! He means it.
IF GOD SAYS, for such and such sins they will leave it for a time, they do so and
they did; and if God declares He will restore them to it, this He does and
indeed has done (SMR Appendix A,
Ch. 9). If GOD says that they will fight amazingly effective wars
against enormous numerical disproportion in their enemies who will assail them,
this is done, and it has already been done in the noted years, 1948, 1967, 1973.

Moreover if God says that the Gentiles are with Israel, all nations of sinners, and
that unbelief will give them the same end as has been seen in the beginning with
Israel, when it has forfeited much of the care of its God, then take heed!
Blindness is not so excusable in those, be they Jew or Gentile, who have sight, nor deafness in those
whose hearing is so acute, that they may witlessly and safely thunder their own music, with drums of
denial and cymbals of self-satisfaction, to ensure they do not hear.

Let us then watch the flower
unfold, and see how God deals with the sowers of weeds. Let us continue to see
how He deals so graciously with those who repent of such sowing, whether in
mind, body or spirit, whether in antagonism to God in this way, or that,
contrary to His word.

God speaks, His mind is made clear (Amos 4:11), and it is time to heed.

These news items, then, spread
from 1996 to 2003, and are often very detailed, giving some sense in the
process, of historical development.

For reasons
of ease of cross-reference, the original news numbers are retained.

NOTES

*1 This in some ways parallels the
situation in Ezekiel 7:14, where the trumpet has been blown, but none stirs.
That however was prelude to the devastation of Jerusalem, since it did not heed
its own prophets; this now is prelude to the deliverance of the people by the
outpouring of the Spirit of God, showing them their sins, as a nation, and
bringing them back from their rejection of the Messiah, Jesus Christ, to mourn
for their action and seek washing in the fountain of washing that comes from Him
(Zechariah 12:19-13:1). \

While for the time as now, Israel
does not hear, neither do her oppressors; but the scenario is clear, the
predicted events are strewn on the world ground for all to see, and
repentance/deliverance for Israel, and the devastation for her oppressors is the
course of events that n ow rides like the Assyrian on the fold; but this
Assyrian has a different answer, more like that in the day of Hezekiah (Isaiah
37), the divine rebuttal with power and resource, leaving the aggressor in
ruin..

*2

Consider the words of Ezekiel
13, compare them with those of Matthew 23, of Paul in II Timothy 3 and Peter in
II Peter 2, and meditate on these things; but let meditation have her proper
outcome!

"They have
envisioned futility and false divination, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord!’ But
the Lord has not sent them; yet they hope that the word may be confirmed. "Have you not seen a futile vision, and have you not spoken
false divination? You say, ‘The Lord says,’ but I have not spoken."

"Therefore
thus says the Lord God:

'Because you have spoken
nonsense and envisioned lies, therefore I am indeed against you,'
says the Lord God.

'My hand will be against
the prophets who envision futility and who divine lies;
they shall not be in the assembly of My people, nor be written
in the record of the house of Israel,
nor shall they enter into the land
of Israel.
Then you shall know that I am the Lord God.
Because, indeed,
because they have seduced My people, saying,
‘Peace!’ when thereis no peace -
and one builds a wall, and they plaster it with untempered mortar -
say to those who plaster it with untempered mortar, that it
will fall.' "

NEWS ITEMS

The music of this world
is not yet agreeable to the spiritual ear. Yet its progress is predicted, its
path clear and its destiny eventual destruction. In this, victory will be
regained first through correction upon the return of the Lord, Jesus Christ;
and secondly through the production of a new heavens and a new earth - like a
new novel. What will be very novel will be this: in this, righteousness will
dwell and celestial peace will rule in willing hearts.

Then, as now, but then
manifest in meaning before all, will be the song,

Worthy is the
Lamb who was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing! .... Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be to Him who sits on the
throne, and to the Lamb for ever and ever... (Revelation 5:12,13).

Now we return to the
present state of the patient, earth! to the pilgrimage
of some in Christ, and to the corruption of many without Him.

Now it is to the rumble
or refinement of events, covered in advance in their tenor and often in their
detail by the word of God, which rules and lives for ever. THAT,
it is just a matter of fact. To this, history consistently says, AMEN!

For all
items, SMR refers to The Shadow of a Mighty Rock (q.v., No.4, Home Page:
Library).

Jerusalem is now set to become a
super-metropolis, with towns on the West of it, to be annexed, but those on the
East merely to receive municipal services. Outrage!

NEWS 38

Time,
August 31, 1998

Bin Laden,
called a 'renegade' Saudi, of various address including Pakistan,
appears interested in offence, offensiveness against the U.S.,
the Saudi royal family and Israel,
according to Time.

In this
article, from the hyperlink above, we review this foreground in the presence of
the background from Jeremiah chiefly, noting this, that JEREMIAH IS MORE THAN
JEREMIAD.

He is more
masterful in dealing in this way, at God's commandwith the
future from that distant past time, THEN, than any are ABLE to create it NOW!
This we attest and show from the evidence.

NEWS 39

The week
ending October 31, 1998 has been a vigorous
one for the Middle East. TV shows have been
burdened with the Washington talks on the future
of the area.

Hussein of Jordan has been a peace-broker, Clinton of the U.S., a power-broker, Netanyahu a
merchandiser, ostensibly at least of land for peace. If the peace is not
suitable, where goes the land ? The land, it appears from Arafat, the peace
invader, is quite suitable. What is the
significance of these developments ?

Amidst all but endless strife,
strife about Oslo agreements, about failure to keep conditions, rules, about
riots, about terrorists, about deaths, about grisly disregard of life and
impositions on children, desire for peace and prohibition of peace, desire for
security and invasion of security, desire for breathing space in the Jewish
allotment called Israel, and desire to breath that space on the part of others,
we now find amidst the marvellous handshaking and President Clintonesque
intonations, a further blatancy.

While Benjamin Netanyahu
requires a "halt to the street violence and a public renunciation by Mr Arafat
of polans to unilaterally declare a Palestinian State, Mr Arafat now enunciates
something rather different: "We will declare a Palestinaian State... with
Jerusalem its capital", to the pacific Fatah movement. Perhaps France will declare England to be privileged to participate in a French State, with London the capital.

It is at least a variant
to find Jerusalem and not just East Jerusalem in this Jules Verne provincialisation
of the land God gave to the Jews. Peace ? It is simply unavailable while there
is war with God; religion is no more up for grabs than physics, and indeed
rather less so! (see News 40).

Meta-religionis met with and it is in vain to seek to dismantle what God
has decreed. Experiments of this kind litter history; they do little more.

ISRAEL
ASSAILED BY THAT COMBINATION OF PAN-ISLAM AND EUROPEAN UNION VERBAL WAR, WHICH
INCREASINGLY MATCHES THE BIBLICAL 'ALL THE NATIONS' … of
Zechariah 14, and 'the surrounding nations' of Zechariah 12:

Jerusalem the
Bibical "burdensome stone" to her aggressors at this phase of predicted history,
continues to play her prophesied part.

While
much has been written concerning Israel since this volume has published, it
seems good to add the following two chapters from Bay of Retractable
Islands, Mission for the Mainland, namely 18 and19. In that work,
attention is paid to the drifting of islands from the mainland of what might be
called nuclear biblical exegesis: that is, explanation of passages in their own
terms, without addition or subtraction from tradition, fancy, preference, but
only in the constraints of the context, both immediate and in the whole scope of
scripture.

It
is then found that many intractable and competitive extremes become once more
part of the non-extremist mainland. The only extreme desirable, is extreme
attention in fidelity to what is written. Applied to Israel, this produces
valuable results.

ADDITIONS TO JULY 2010

This has now been sited in
Israel II, forming in that
volume, Chs. 1 and 2.